Medieval History
Sometime in the next few weeks, Rabbi Kliel Rose of West End Synagogue in Nashville hopes to pick up a copy of the New Testament and learn a little more about Jesus.
Rose, like many Jews, has viewed the Christian Scriptures with some suspicion in the past. The New Testament is not always flattering to Jews, and it has been used in unwelcome attempts at conversion.
He hopes the new Jewish Annotated New Testament will make his task a bit more enjoyable.
?For so long we?ve been told that this is not a safe text, that it is a perversion of Torah,? Rose said. ?This allows us to look at this as a body of literature without any fear that it will try to convert us.?
Click here to read this article from the Tennessean
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Medieval History
Vanderbilt scholar Amy-Jill Levine stresses Jewish roots of the New Testament
Rose, like many Jews, has viewed the Christian Scriptures with some suspicion in the past. The New Testament is not always flattering to Jews, and it has been used in unwelcome attempts at conversion.
He hopes the new Jewish Annotated New Testament will make his task a bit more enjoyable.
?For so long we?ve been told that this is not a safe text, that it is a perversion of Torah,? Rose said. ?This allows us to look at this as a body of literature without any fear that it will try to convert us.?
Click here to read this article from the Tennessean
- The Medieval Jewish Poet Who Preceded Chaucer
Rare poems documenting the persecution of Norwich's medieval Jewish community, in the period preceding the expulsion from England in 1290, are being given a new lease of life thanks to the work of a dedicated group of residents. The East Anglia town...
- Special Session: Translating And Adapting Old Testament Wisdom
International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University May 12-15, 2011 Special session: Translating and Adapting Old Testament Wisdom We are seeking papers focused on the translation, adapation and use of proverbs and other types of Old Testament...
- The Old Testament As Authoritative Scripture In The Early Churches Of The East
The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East This publication represents the latest scholarly research in the field of the Old Testament's use as Scripture in Eastern Christianity. Its twelve articles focus on the...
- Cfp: *old Testament Saints In The Medieval Latin West*
*Old Testament Saints in the Medieval Latin West* Organizer: Alison Locke Perchuk, Yale University Presider: Edward Schoolman, UCLA Christianity's Judaic roots meant that it inherited an extensive roster of worthy men and women whose deeds were memorialized...
- Evangelical Theological Society
The annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, RI, November 19-21, 2008 has quite a lot to offer TC wise: John Wei-Ho Wu (Logos Evangelical Seminary) Authenticity of the Distinctively Byzantine Shorter Reading Andrew W. Pitts...